The Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE) celebrates Europe Day

The Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE) celebrated Europe Day with an initiative launched to its Assemblies and Parliaments and which consisted of illuminating the façade of their buildings with blue colour or projecting the European Union flag.

Europe Day, which is held on 9 May every year in Europe, celebrates peace and unity on the European continent and marks the anniversary of the historical ‘Schuman Declaration’. On 9 May 1950, in Paris, Robert Schuman, the then French Foreign Minister, set out his vision for a new form of political cooperation in Europe, which would make war between Europe’s nations unthinkable. He defended, thus, the creation of a European institution that would manage coal and steel production. Less than a year after, a treaty creating such a body was signed.

On the night of 9 May, CALRE’s Assemblies and Parliaments that joined the initiative illuminated their façades with blue colour or projected the European Union flag, thus reminding ‘Schuman Declaration’, considered to be the beginning of what is now the European Union.